“Raptor 3 is engineering art [@XFreeze] Raptor 3 is engineering black magic SpaceX’s Raptor is the FIRST full-flow staged combustion engine to ever fly - only the 3rd ever built (after the Soviet RD-270 and the 2000s US demo that never flew) → Both fuel-rich + oxidizer-rich preburners → 100% of propellant through”
The tweet archive.
15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“It’s a start. Vastly more will be needed to extend consciousness to the stars. [@TheRabbitHole] SpaceX has launched more then every other company combined”
“Testing streaming on X via Starlink https://t.co/91ilYMadda https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvNEaykgxB”
“SpaceX has come a long way, but we are still at the very beginning of making life multiplanetary and being a true spacefaring civilization https://t.co/zHQj02EcOi”
“@WholeMarsBlog The people of Twitter strongly agree that Twitter needs to be fixed”
“Seven good years of Falcon Heavy [@johnkrausphotos] Seven years ago today: Maiden launch of Falcon Heavy )”
“Starship is the most powerful moving object ever made https://t.co/8FpSmjtPo2”
“This talk is postponed until after the Starship Flight 9 launch tonight [@SpaceX] Watch an update from @elonmusk on SpaceX’s plan to make life multiplanetary https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1rmxPyOEBWXKN”
“Inspiring new merch idea: rocket pocket underpants! 🚀 🩳 Underpants with a handy pocket for your rocket, which contains a real scale model rocket with an easy pull out ability. Guaranteed to be a hit at parties!”
“Register for the Starlink direct to cell beta program with T-Mobile [@TMobile] anyone. any wireless carrier. if you can see the sky, you're connected. register for the T-Mobile @Starlink beta: https://t-mo.co/4aS7Gxx)”
“Starlink can do it for ~10 times less [@DataRepublican] There are over $54 million in awards dedicated to providing broadband services for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Per Wikipedia, 16,906 American Indians live there. That's $3,216 per capita to enable access to broadband. To contextualize, this is one of the poorest… )”
“SpaceX Dragon [@SpaceX] Crew-12 on orbit”
“Mars may be a fixer upper of a planet, but it has great potential!”
“Starship Flight 3 preparing for launch”
“Starship SN24 in the High Bay https://t.co/vDZ4yBV1MF”
“You can see the much higher propellant mass fraction of the new ship design by the percentage of rocket that is frosty https://t.co/uzhDOc38mV”
“Speedy @Starlink now in Bahrain! [@teslaownersSV] BREAKING: Starlink’s fast internet is now live in Bahrain! 🛰️🇧🇭”
“I just FaceTimed the @framonauts via @Starlink! [@satofishi] Flight Day 4 I woke up early and watched the launch of Starlink Group 11-13 on YouTube. Shortly after, SpaceX contacted us and informed us that we would be flying over Mongolia during the second stage deorbit burn. We opened the cupola and tried to observe the event, but had no”
“Mars probably had liquid oceans a long time ago, before it cooled. Now, there are vast fields of ice covered by red dust. If we warm up the planet, the oceans will return and the atmosphere will densify, making it possible to extend life to Mars. [@MarioNawfal] 🚨 MARS HAD AN OCEAN? CHINESE ROVER DIGS UP NEW EVIDENCE Turns out, Mars might have been beachfront property billions of years ago. China’s Zhurong rover has uncovered 10-35 meter-thick sloping deposits beneath Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in Mars’ northern lowlands,… )”
“Congratulations @SpaceX Dragon team, @rookisaacman and the crew of @PolarisProgram!”
“Yes [@cb_doge] Starship is the first ever rocket design capable of making life multiplanetary. )”
“@WallStreetSilv Approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran”
“30 flights of the same rocket! [@SpaceX] Falcon 9’s first stage has landed, completing this booster’s 30th flight!”
“Another Starlink mission completed”
“@EdKrassen My concern was more the outrageous demand that people *must* take the vaccine and multiple boosters to do anything at all. That was messed up. Until the Supreme Court invalidated Biden’s exec order, SpaceX and many other companies would have been forced to fire anyone who…”
“11 years ago [@MarioNawfal] ELON: WE’LL NEED TERABIT-LEVEL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EARTH AND MARS “We're going to need terabit-level communication between Earth and Mars, which necessarily means that you want to have a tight beam, like a laser communication system or something like that with relay… )”
“@teslaownersSV “and he’s building a giant rocket to get back to his home planet!””
“SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming. Will cause slight delays in Starship & Starlink V2.”
“Autonomous SpaceX droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas https://t.co/hNZ5U7nxUg”
“The Falcons have landed https://t.co/BGQRNuYMVH”
“Half a decade ago [@NASA] Five years ago, @NASA_Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley launched to the @Space_Station aboard a @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Our Demo-2 mission was the first time American astronauts launched on an American rocket from the U.S. in nearly 10 years.”
“Preparing for next Starship flight! This time, I think we have ~50% probability of reaching orbital velocity, however even getting to stage separation would be a win.”
“Congrats to @SpaceX team for launching 2 rockets within 4 hours! https://t.co/kT5T01lxjt”
“Dragon docks with @Space_Station in ~3 hours”
“This is just a very basic first step. Earth and Mars will ultimately need >petabit/sec connectivity.”
“Yes [@cb_doge] Starship is the only realistic path to becoming a Kardashev civilization”
“Just completed static fire test of Flight 3 Super Heavy Booster https://t.co/m0n8RooOlA”
“Starship is designed to carry 100 people [@peterrhague] I don't think the wider public is prepared for what a ridiculously roomy spacecraft Starship will be. Nothing like it since Skylab”
“I added “Santa Claus is riding the dinosaur” 😂 https://t.co/Ha3rsAleBs [@BoosterTribe] @elonmusk this is amazing by @grok . Yes, that was a real sign at @SpaceX”
“Simulation of first crewed flight of Falcon 9 / Dragon 2020 @NASA https://t.co/BSDPYTcVIG”
“Yes [@ElonClipsX] Elon Musk: A lot of companies are honey traps for talented engineers. Tesla and SpaceX aren't honey traps. We're demanding and you'll get a lot of shit done. “I consider one of my core responsibilities running companies to have an environment where great engineers can flourish.”
“1469 Starlink satellites active 272 moving to operational orbits Laser links activate soon”
“On empathy [@MarsUniversityX] Elon Musk: "We want to have empathy that is deep, not shallow. I strongly believe we should care about humanity and we should care about the future. But we need to have empathy that is deep, not shallow Shallow empathy is caring about criminals, but deep empathy is caring about”
“Starlink is an excellent product”
“Today at SpaceX is about practicing Starship engine starts. Ship is held down by massive pins while engines are fired. Two starts completed, about to try a third.”
“We’re changing Starlink’s default wifi name to Stinky”
“Starlink now dynamically connects to the satellite with the best connection updating 10 times a second! [@Starlink] Starlink is built to deliver reliable high-speed internet, even when a customer’s view of the sky isn’t perfect. Starlink terminals automatically switch between satellites in real time to address any degradation in the link → http://starlink.com/beam-switching”
“🚀 for all mankind 🚀 https://t.co/riHsNMQqcP [@astro_reid] @elonmusk Thank you, @elonmusk - the four of us glimpsed the red hues of Mars far in the distance as the sun slipped behind the Moon and there was zero doubt in our minds that the creative genius of our greatest minds will have us there very soon. LETS GO”
“Falcon rocket reentry from space with double sonic booms https://t.co/6DDPjcOgQH”
“World’s most advanced bakery [@SpaceX] Our fully automated bakery in Florida is setup to produce thousands of heat shield tiles per day to outfit the coming fleet of Starship vehicles”
